Re: Which Distro to use for production environment

I downloaded the ISOs for Fedora Core 2 using bit torrent, really really 
fast!

Any way, install was easy, network cards functioning, as is raid, etc..  
But, yum sucks, i much prefer apt and aptitude from Debian.  But, enough 
of that.

Really, though.... is Fedora Core 1 / 2 _really_ stable enough for a 
production environment?  I am skeptical...   I am considering trying to 
convince the client to purchase Red Hat Enterprise ES for $349 (as I am 
not too thrilled with the oldness of debian stable (ignoring the fact 
the network card doesn't work) and the many suggestions against using 
debian testing....

Chris

Richard Ford wrote:

> Fedora Core 2 or 1 if you want to use a 2.4 series kernel.
>
> Use APT/RHN and KUDZU for hardware detection and be done with it.
>
> RF.
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 18:13, Chris Drumgoole wrote:
>
>>/Quick update,  I went ahead and tried 3 things:
>>
>>1. Install Debian 3 stable.  Couldn't get network card working even 
>>after using debian's alien tool to get the sources out of the rpm and 
>>attempt to compile them - major issues with, one compiled, missing 
>>dependencies.
>>2. Install Debian 3 Testing (For fun) Netinstall Beta 4. Install program 
>>found the network card, I configured it like I would any other (first 
>>tried dhcp, failed, then static ip,. failed again).
>>3. Install Red Hat 9.  It booted, but when the install program when to 
>>find the install media (after selecting CDROM from list of CDROM, HTTP, 
>>NFS, etc...), if couldn't find the correct CD.
>>
>>Yeah, so, this isn't too good...  Ideas? :-)
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>Chris Drumgoole wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> So, I am setting up a server for a client on a new HP box.  My 
>>> original plan was to use Debian stable, but the HP nic card has 
>>> special drivers that are only provided by HP in rpm format.  I don't 
>>> want to install RPM on debian (even possible?!).  So I thought about 
>>> going back to the Red Hat 9 - but super old, and disc 2 of my install 
>>> discs is coastered, so I would have to redownload it.  Red Hat 
>>> Enterprise, which would be cool, is over $300, free is preferred.
>>>
>>> What would people recommend?  Is Fedora Core # considered "Production 
>>> Stable" now?  I really wanted to use a package manager, which I 
>>> wouldn't be able to use with Red Hat 9 (unless I go to Fedora Legacy, 
>>> which I could use apt or yum, but the updates are only security fixes, 
>>> so again, really old.)
>>>
>>> So, suggestions!?  This pay-for-linux thing is getting on my nerves.. 
>>> (i.e. Red Hat Enterprise blah blah)
>>>
>>> Chris
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